5V5 Mortar Madness *EVENT PERKS ARE BACK*

At least we can get some more ship pieces. Lots (me included) were asking for that. And at least the people who wanted the perk prizes again have that option. Definitely not easy to get enough of either, but better than the drought that we just came through.

Seems the devs are caught between corporate push for more $ and player demand. Really a no win situation for them from my perspective.

 

The goal to increase revenue per player conflicts with the fact that the game is designed for mass player adoption. If this continues, I see the game going away in 2019.

 

The sad thing is that they could have both ways. They already have a fantastic game, all that is needed is a pricing structure that gives small, medium, and big spenders something to work towards. I think most of us understand and want Rovio to make money in order to improve the game. But some of their decision making lately seems to alienate everyone and muck a lot of goodwill that has been built up over the course of the last couple years.

I want to spend more money on the game, but they don't encourage small transactions that would have much affect on my progress. $10 for 1800 new ship pieces? Seriously?
There are so many currencies within the game that at least one or two types could be based upon Micro-Transactions(such as powercells). This would at least give micro-transaction spenders something they can buy which would actually feel like a game progressing purchase. Instead EVERY currency within the game is hard to come by and expensive, and every time the game invents a new currency(ship pieces and ship coins) they cater all the price points to big spenders.

 

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there bud.. I mean, if I could - I probably would buy a lot of the offers that pop up, but at the moment, I just cannot justify dropping £30 on an offer (like today's speeder bundle thing that's appeared on my screen) when that'll keep my toddler in nappies and food for almost a month!
I have recently re-started my VIP after letting it lapse for a few months - mainly due to the 4.0 update tbh, so offers at similar price points to that (£5-£15) would tempt me a hell of a lot more

 

The concept of P2W games has historically been to offer tangible progress for a small fee, and those fees would add up over time as long as the game remains compelling. Battle Bay has no micro transactions that offer tangible progress. Those transactions costs more than an entire AAA console game. It seems they are doubling down on this concept by making sure monetary transactions are worth even less than before under the pretense that will bring in more revenue per user. I'd bet that even if it works in short term it won't last.

 

Fantastic game indeed. Needs an advertising campaign.
I can't find a single person among my friends and coworkers in real life that has heard of this game. Despite them playing multitudinous mobile games. I just don't think the game is being advertised as well as it should be.

 

Same with me, no one has ever heard of this game.... which confirms there is no advertising. When it was advertised at global launch it brought in a LOT of players... so there is an obvious correlation.

 

It looks like also super-broke matchmaking

Spoiler

I'm not sure what rules that matchmaking tries to follow but I think "boats should be within 7000 gear score of each other" should be in there somewhere

 

It's based on Captain Level... and largely ignores Gear Score until balancing the selected participants.

 

It’s not based on captain lv or if it is it’s broken. I just had a lv 10 shooter on my side captain lv 17 everyone else in the game was lv 50. He did 1600 damage and we lost. It’s not fair to higher or lower levels. How can that person compete. Even if both sides had low level boats that lv 10 shooter is not going to earn more than a few coins.

 

It may be different at lower levels, but look at all your matches for a pattern.

All I see in my matches are Captain Level 49-50, which includes players 1000's of Infamy and 1000's of Gear Score higher than me, so I know it's not matching by Gear Score for me.

 

only now noticed the event offer..

stock: 100 ? desperate moves
CHANCE to get Mortar?
and that efing price tag?
This game’s going bananas. smh

 

my thoughts as well

 

Yup... 2 out of 7 containers came with Frost for me.

They did these 2x odds increase for Gatling gun as well... it increased your chances from 2.6% to 5.3% chance of getting one. Thanks.

 

the event’s almost over and still don’t feel the 30% mortar buff.. lame